There are only three things you can do with a dollar: spend, loan, or own.

There is only one kind of life insurance, and that is pure protection based on a mortality table. All others are pure protection plus a cash value element that I call 'funny' banking.

One characteristic that I have observed about the timing of all good traders is that they never try to squeeze out the last point in a stock.

Inflation takes from the ignorant and gives to the well informed.

The person who takes no chances generally must take whatever is left over after others have finished choosing. Overcaution is as bad, if not worse, than lack of caution. Both should be avoided. Life will always contain an element of chance. Not to win is not a sin. But not to try is a tragedy.

The great mystery of life is the length of it.

The three most important rules in selecting the right piece of real estate are location, location, location (and when we have periods of tight money I would add terms, terms, terms).